Wall construction



J. F. KELLY WALL CONSTRUCTION Filed Jan. 24. 1950 May 12,1931.

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ATTORNEY Patented May 12, 1931 i j oFic JAMES FJKELLY, OF CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY WALL CONSTRUCTION Application filed January 24, 1930. Serial No. 423,217.

This invention relates to wall construction tallic strips which may be either solid or holof the veneer type wherein a brick or tile low. These strips are provided with upper veneer is secured upon the outer face of a inclined faces 15 and when these strips are wood or frame building to give the walls of secured to a wall, these faces incline rearthe building the appearance of solid brick or wardly and downwardly as shown in Figure 55 tile walls. 2 of the drawings. Rising from the inclined An object of the present invention is to faces 15 of the strips are spaced projections provide novel means for Lit-aching the brick 16 which are adapted to be received within or tile to the wooden structure, the means the notches or recesses 13.

1e employed being simple, inexpensive and The strips l l are secured to the wall 60 easily applied, so that the cost of both matethrough the medium of nails or fastening derial and labor will be reduced to a minimum. vices 17 which pass through openings 18 pro- WVith the above and other objects in View, vided in the strips. The strips are disposed the invention further includes the following horizontally of the walls and in vertically l5 novel features and details of construction, spaced relation, with the projections 16 of 5 to be hereinafter more fully described, illusdja t t i t g d Th b i k er til trated in the accompanying drawings and are th l d upon th t i ith th pointed out in the appended Claimsinclined walls 12 engaging behind the in- In the drawings clined faces of the strips and the projec 29 Figure 1 is an elevation Showing a ag tions disposed within the recesses or notches 7e mentary portion of a wall with the invention 13 Th 1 1 11 b i f t r width tha applied. the strips 1 1, the brick or tile 10 may be read- Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary ily placed upon the strips. The brick or tile tical sectional view. will thus be held against longitudinal slid- 25 Figure 3 is a perspective view O One Of the ing movement as well as outward movement "15 brick or tile. and will be so positioned as to break joints Figur 4: i i i View showlng a P after the manner of the usual brick wall. of one of the attaching m' P The spaces between the adjacent edges of Figure 5 is a fragmentary section shhwlhg the brick or tile are provided with a plastic the invention pp i to a hat I filling 19 of cement or other suitable material Referring to the drawings in detail whereto ip t mortar Courses, in like characters of reference denote corre- In Figure 2, the b i k il h th i rea spondihg Parts, the reference Character 10 faces 20 inclined and are adapted to be used indicates a brick or tile which may be made upon the Outside of a Clapboard wan 21. of y suitable material Shch F 3: C(hhhht while the brick or tile 10a shown in Figure 55 asbestos: and may I any Slhthhle dhheh 5 of the drawings have their inner and cute r Siohs p The hrlch the showh faces parallel and are adapted to be applied. rectangular and are provided upon their to flat vertical Walls 22 ihher faces with lhhgihhdihahy disposed The invention is susceptible of varioit grooves 11 Whose Walls i ihchhed as changes in its form, proportions and minor so shown at 12, the inclinat1on bemg Su that details of construction and the right is herein 7 the lunar or hohtom Walls of h grooves are reserved to make such changes as properly of greater Wldhh than the Whhh of the fall within the scope of the appended claims.

trim 1. Having described the invention what is Extending from the grooves 11 are notches claimed is 01' recesses These notches 01' recesses X' 1 In a onstruction a base ertically n from the pp inclined Walls 12 and spaced horizontally disposed strips secured may be positioned at any point throughou thereto, said strips having inwardly inclined the length of the grooves. upper faces, bricks having longitudinally The reference character 14 indicates medisposed slots in their rear faces to receive 101 the strips, said slots having inclined upper Walls for engagement over the inclined faces of the strips to provide an interlocking engagement, means to hold the bricks against independent longitudinal movement on said strips, and a plastic filling between the adj acent edges of the strips. 7

2. Ina Wall construction, a base, vertically spaced horizontally disposed strips secured thereto, said strips having inwardly inclined upper faces, projections extending vertically from the inclined faces of the strips, bricks having longitudinally disposed slots in their rear faces to receive the strips, said slots having inclined u per Walls for engagement over theiinclined aces of the strips and having notches extending from said walls to receive the projections of the strips and provide an interlocking engagement, and a plastic filling between the adjacent edges of the bricks. In testimony whereof I aifix my slgnature.

JAMES F. KELLY. 

